In the past 50 years, family-planning programs have been heavily promoted across the developing world. A vast academic literature now tests both the intellectual rationale for these programs, as well as their impact on a wide range of demographic and economic outcomes. In recent years, the availability of new methods and new datasets from the developing world has intensified the academic resear...

In 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana experienced an interruption in its neighborhood life cycle due to Hurricane Katrina. While federal, state and local administrative policies have tried to manage the process of recovery, the non-profit sector has been a key to the recovery. This paper will examine the case study of the Beacon of Hope Resource Centre (BOH) whose ability to collect data, expand citi...

Marine spatial planning is increasingly used to manage the demands on marine areas, both spatially and temporally, where several different users may compete for resources or space, to ensure that development is as sustainable as possible. Diminishing sea-ice coverage in the Arctic will allow for potential increases in economic exploitation, and failure to plan for cross-sectoral management coul...

This article presents a theoretical model for a dynamic system based on sustainable development. Due to the relatively absence of theoretical studies and practical issues in the area of sustainable development, Romania aspires to the principles of sustainable development. Based on the concept as a process in which economic, social, political and natural environment are combined in order to sust...

Purpose Health economic studies gain more and more importance in both conventional and complementary medicine. In most cases such studies are conducted as a combination of a RCT and a health economic evaluation (“Piggy-Back-Studies”). Therefore study planning parameters like sample size still are calculated on the basis of the outcome of the clinical parameters. This might lead to situations of...

It is proposed that long wave economic cycles are related to natural variability, and thus we might only be able to properly manage the ecosystem by combining our understanding of the sources and mechanisms of that natural variability to our limited social and economic planning capabilities.

Developing the country’s economic is a hot topic in Chinese society, and then the freight ability is a value that show the development of the local economic. The prediction of freight ability in country is benefit to the planning of country’s transport. This article choose suited input first, and then make up the GRNN model, at last ,predict the ability of the freight.

In today’s fast growing digital environment, firms are keen that their strategies should take advantage of the Internet’s capacity to access, organize and communicate information in fractions of cost involved before the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution. Considering the vital role of strategic planning to business success, this paper proposes a path analytic framework to...

Regional planning model is critical for the planning support system employed by Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). As an example of regional planning model, Southern California Planning Model (SCPM) incorporates economic input-output analysis to a spatial allocation model and reports results in considerable spatial detail. The economic inputoutput model is used to estimate the indirect a...